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insect and will, at the same time, make him competent as the admin- 

 istrative head directing the staff who carry out the measures of sup- 

 pression. On the other hand, as he is more typically an administrator, 

 so his talent will less readily find expression in the details of investiga- 

 tion. There is need for specialists in both fields. 



President E. D. Ball: The paper is now before us for discussion. 



Mr. T. J. Headlee: We have heard a great deal during this 

 meeting about the necessity of the business administrator in carrying 

 out work for the suppression of injurious insects. While I agree 

 heartily with the idea that a business-like administration of such a 

 project is a necessity, I want to point out that a purely business admin- 

 istrator is just the man not to have in charge of such a project. He 

 believes from his experience that the methods of procedure should be 

 easily and definitely laid down and he will have no patience with the 

 uncertainty which the nature of the problem creates in the mind of the 

 entomologist. Pure business administrators for large projects of this 

 kind, for directors of experiment stations and presidents of colleges are 

 likely to prove a failure, because the very standardization which such 

 a man will tend to introduce will destroy the initiative and render 

 sterile the mind of the specialist without freest activity with which 

 success cannot be had. 



Mr. McCampbell: In the matter of educating the public, I 

 wonder if you realize how far your appropriations would go if you 

 spent them with some of the weekly and farm papers in the form of 

 pure editorial matter. My observations in Monmouth County are 

 that the farmers there read the two country papers religiously; they 

 read everything, and if the experiment station in New Brunswick wishes 

 to reach those farmers, let them get up a nice readable story which the 

 farmers can understand, and bring it right home to them, you will 

 reach every farmer in the country. A little bit of time spent with 

 those editors will get you two to five times as much through the edi- 

 torials. I think this would be a wonderful way to get this information 

 to them, and I am sure it will do lots of good. 



Mr. H. a. Gossard: I Avish to call attention to the fact that if 

 we are going to call upon the infested districts to bear the full burden 

 of suppression, that certain parts of our country will be loaded with 

 nearly all of that expense. The great ports of entry for insect pests 

 are in the New England and Middle States, and nearly all of our serious 

 pests have gained entrance into the country from these points. We 

 cannot reasonably expect that these states will pay for everything or 

 feel that it is their duty to suppress all pests that may have entered 



